Hi,

I did a search on this forum, and found many posts with the general advice of 'insurance as a separate hedge bet', and that makes sense for hands for which I hit or stand. However, I have somewhat of a mental block dealing with this situation in terms of hands for which I should double. For example, if I had 11 v. dealer's A at a high count, say 5 (just so we can avoid more discussion regarding exact vs. rounded indices I believe 5 should be high enough to trigger any manner of index calcuation, my apologies for my question last time), should I insure AND double? I just wanted to ask again to make sure. Because say I bet $50 on this hand, I pay $25 for insurance, then double down with another $50, risking a total of $125 vs. $50. In a situation like this, is it still correct to insure AND double?